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What shall I say next? The Halicyans, the settlers among whom pay tenths,
themselves have their lauds free from taxes. Were not they also compelled to give to
the same Turpio fifteen thousand sesterces, when their
tenths had been sold for a hundred medimni? If, as you
are especially anxious to do, you could prove that these compliments all went to the
farmers, and that none of them reached you, still these sums, taken and extorted as
they were by your violence and injustice, ought to ensure your conviction; but, as
you cannot persuade any one that you were so foolish as to wish Apronius and Turpio,
two slaves, to become rich at your own risk and that of your children, do you think
that any one will doubt that through the instrumentality of those emissaries all
this money was really procured for you?
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